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Summer 2018 has so far given us plenty of hot weather and a World Cup which broke the record for most own goals scored in the tournament's history. The last thing anyone is thinking about is the winter film awards season. But despite it still being July, the starting gun for the race which will culminate in the Oscars in February has now been fired. It's been announced that First Man will open the Venice International Film Festival this year - traditionally thought of as the first of the awards season festivals. It's based on the Apollo 11 moon landing, and stars Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong - who became the First Man (y'see) to walk on on the moon in 1969. The movie is directed by Damien Chazelle, whose film La La Land - also starring Gosling - opened the same festival in 2016. The musical went on to pick up a whole host of awards - although not, notably, best picture at the Oscars. (Famously, the film was initially announced as the winner by mistake, before it finally … [Read more...] about Ryan Gosling’s Neil Armstrong movie to open Venice Film Festival

Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield has returned to Earth along with two other astronauts after a half-year mission to the International Space Station that saw him become a global celebrity through Twitter.
Hadfield landed safely in the Kazakh steppe along with American Tom Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko aboard a Russian Soyuz-TMA capsule that had left the space station earlier Tuesday morning, mission control said.
Russian state television pictures showed the giant white parachute of the Soyuz capsule unfurling successfully after re-entry and the capsule then touching down in the Kazakh steppe, sending a plume of dust upwards into the sky.
The Soyuz touched down at 0231 GMT in the steppe south of the central Kazakh city of Karaganda. The Soyuz landed on its side rather than vertically, but this is a relatively common occurrence.
On a sunny spring morning, all three astronauts were then successfully extracted from the capsule by recovery teams who rushed to the scene in … [Read more...] about Canadian ISS astronaut returns to Earth a star

U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday.
Armstrong died following complications from heart-bypass surgery he underwent earlier this month, the family said in a statement, just two days after his birthday on August 5.
As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. As he stepped on the dusty surface, Armstrong said: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
Those words endure as one of the best known quotes in the English language.
The Apollo 11 astronauts' euphoric moonwalk provided Americans with a sense of achievement in the space race with Cold War foe the Soviet Union and while Washington was engaged in a bloody war with the communists in Vietnam.
Neil Alden Armstrong was 38 years old at the time and even though he had fulfilled one of mankind's age-old … [Read more...] about First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82

Duc Tuan to perform at Da Nang theatre
Pop singer Duc Tuan will perform at the central city's Trung Vuong Theatre tonight, according to event organiser Le Kha Luc.
The live show will include 20 songs composed by late musician Pham Duy, and extracts from the Phantom of the Opera, Le temps de cathedrales (Notre-Dame de Paris), and Vietnamese love songs.
Tonight will be his first live show in Da Nang.
Tuan has put on successful shows in the past including Music of the Night in HCM City in 2009, and Paradiso in Ha Noi and HCM City in 2011.
Harsh penalty for fashion show host, models
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will apply the harshest penalty and ultimate sanctions on the Venus Company, who hosted a fashion show called 'Dem Hoi Chan Dai 7' (the Long-Legged Festival), said Vo Trong Nam, deputy head of the department.
The fashion show sparked criticism from the public at the very start after the invitation was released on the Internet with pictures of … [Read more...] about ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 24/5

Kfir Damari, a communication systems engineer, has a dream: to land a miniature spacecraft on the moon sometime in 2013.
Damari is one of the founders of Team SpaceIL, a non-profit organization representing Israel in the Google Lunar X Competition. The prize: 20 million U.S. dollars to the first of the 26 international teams currently registered that lands an unmanned craft on the moon, moves it a minimum of 500 meters across the lunar surface and transmits live high-resolution images back to earth.
"It's a tough mission, but I believe that if everyone in Israel joins hands it's possible," Damari told Xinhua.
It is exactly the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that Israel, a country largely void of natural resources, counts on to make it a global leader in technological innovation.
The two other men behind the initiative are Yonatan Winetraub, 25, a systems engineer at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and a graduate of NASA's International Space University, and Yariv Bash, … [Read more...] about Israel reaching for the moon